A low-cost automated trap to measure bubbling gas fluxes

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Volumn 8, Issue JULY, 2010, Pages 363-375

  Varadharajan, Charuleka ^a   Hermosillo, Richard ^a   Hemond, Harold F ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

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EID: 77956638876     PISSN: 15415856     EISSN: 15415856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lom.2010.8.363     Document Type: Article

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